Can You Run Your Own Focus Group?
For this activity students will run their own focus groups, using a group discussion guide, which reviews consumer behavior in the fast food market.
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Running a Focus Group
In this exercise, students run focus groups to understand the importance of getting beyond “top-level” answers and to gather some real insights into the behavior of the target market.
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What is the Most Appropriate Research Design?
In this task, students simply need to match the approach to market testing a new product to the firm most likely to conduct it. The types of research are listed first, followed by the type of firm.
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Which Research Design to Use?
In this activity, students need to consider the information challenges facing Pizza Hut and identify the most suitable market research or market information approach they should use to help gather information.
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Defining the Market Research Problem
This firm is looking to undertake some market research, but they first need to define the research problem – can your students help them?
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Should We Conduct Market Research (Test Marketing)?
In this activity, students will review the discussion/comments from a new product project team meeting, where the participants argue for/against the merits of conducting test marketing prior to a full launch.
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Preparing a SWOT
The student task here is to prepare a SWOT for a bank that effectively identifies their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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Was McDonald’s Adaptive or Just Lucky?
With this exercise, students need to consider whether McDonald’s successfully leveraged the changing factors in the macro-environment, or whether their business operation just happened to be quite suited to this emerging environment?
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Over-Adapting to the Environment?
In this mini case study, students are required to assess whether this toy manufacturer was too flexible and too willing to adapt to its changing macro-environment.
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Too Slow to Adapt?
Department stores have tended to be less relevant in today’s environment than in the past. The student task is to identify the various environmental factors that contributed to their downfall.
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